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New resource: Access to Post-Conviction DNA Testing

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

The Justice Project has developed a series of policy reviews on the leading causes of wrongful convictions that explain the problems and recommend common sense solutions Improving Access to Post-Conviction DNA Testing: A Policy ReviewThis policy review provides an overview of problems with current post-conviction DNA testing laws, offers solutions to these problems, profiles cases of injustice, highlights states with good laws and policies for DNA testing, and includes a model policy. TJP?s six recommendations for states will improve the effective use of post-conviction DNA testing to create a more accurate criminal justice system and restore public confidence in the system?s ability to correct its own errors. TJP recommends: States should require the preservation of biological evidence throughout a defendant?s sentence and devise standards regarding custody of evidence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on August 13, 2008 (boomark / email).